Simon Vouet Auction Prices and Value Guide

Simon Vouet auction prices are tracked in Appraisily's artist market index, with source-directory coverage of 173 records. Use this page to review sold-lot activity, market context, and valuation factors before requesting a formal appraisal.

Simon Vouet auction prices: quick answer

Simon Vouet auction prices depend on medium, size, date, condition, provenance, edition details, attribution confidence, and recent comparable auction sales.

Artist
Simon Vouet
Source records
173
Market update
2026-02-16

Simon Vouet market snapshot

Simon Vouet shows solid auction liquidity with 68 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $3,200. Category concentration is still broad or sparse. Last 12 months recorded 2 sales. Latest recorded sale: 2025-12-04.

Realized price distribution

  • Under $1,000 (35.9% · 14 sales)
  • $1,000 to $10,000 (25.6% · 10 sales)
  • $10,000+ (38.5% · 15 sales)
Median sale (last 12 months)
$0
Sales recorded (last 12 months)
2
Median shift vs prior year
0.0%
Latest recorded sale
2025-12-04

Artist context

About Simon Vouet

Simon Vouet portrait
Simon Vouet · Public domain · Source

Born

1590

Died

1649

Nationality

French

Simon Vouet (1590–1649) was a French painter and draftsman whose career connected seventeenth-century art in Italy and France. After studying and gaining prominence in Italy, he was summoned by Louis XIII and served as Premier peintre du Roi. In France, Vouet and his studio worked for the crown and elite patrons, including Cardinal Richelieu. Their output encompassed religious and mythological paintings, portraits, fresco decoration, tapestry-related projects, and extensive decorative schemes. This range explains why collectors may encounter Vouet’s name in several Old Master contexts: easel paintings, drawings, and objects connected with a larger workshop practice. His Italian experience informed the style he brought to French court decoration, while authority records identify him as a draftsman as well as a painter. Because his documented practice included studio production, the exact attribution attached to an object matters. A work assigned directly to Vouet is not equivalent to one described only as studio-related.

PaintingDrawingFresco and architectural decorationTapestry-related and large decorative schemesReligious subjectsMythological subjectsPortraiture

Common works and media

Auction and appraisal contexts may include religious or mythological paintings, portraits, and drawings. Vouet’s broader practice also encompassed fresco decoration, tapestry-related projects, and large decorative schemes, frequently involving his studio. Works on paper should be treated as a distinct category rather than compared automatically with paintings. Cataloging should preserve the exact attribution language applied to each object.

Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by separating paintings from drawings and other decorative work, because the available biography describes both Vouet and a substantial studio producing several kinds of commissions. Attribution wording is therefore material when selecting comparable records: a work assigned directly to the artist should not be merged automatically with studio-associated material. Appraisily’s artist index identifies 173 auction records for this name, which can support review of sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when record-level details are available. The count itself does not prove authenticity, rarity, condition, or value. The present source pack contains no fetched major-auction-house analysis, so market conclusions should remain case-specific and evidence-led.

Auction categories and appraisal factors

Common auction categories

  • Paintings
  • Drawings

Value drivers

  1. Studio participation and the exact attribution assigned to an object
  2. Work type and medium, particularly whether comparables concern paintings, drawings, or decorative work
  3. Relevant public auction records, including sale dates and realized prices when record-level information is available

Appraisal caveats

  • Auction-record comparisons require case-by-case review; a record count alone is not a valuation conclusion.
  • Identity and attribution should be established before selecting comparable lots.
  • The collected source pack does not support price forecasts or claims about market trends.

Evidence

Sources for artist context

This source-grounded artist context is based on collected public records: medium confidence, adequate source quality.

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Data basis

This page is built from Appraisily's public auction market index. Private transactions, incomplete sale feeds, and attribution changes may not be fully represented.

LLM-readable Markdown summary for Simon Vouet

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Artist value FAQ

How much is Simon Vouet worth?

Comparable public auction sales are the best starting point, but final value depends on the specific artwork, condition, size, medium, provenance, and attribution confidence.

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